On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 18:14 -0600, Seth Goodman wrote:
Microsoft and Yahoo have resources that the average site does not. Not
everybody can afford IronPort boxes or specialized MTA software like yours.
Er, yeah -- but not everybody would _need_ it either.
Crypto accelerators would obviously solve the problem. As a hardware
engineer who works with DSP's, I would personally benefit from an expanded
market for such accelerators. Designing them is both enjoyable and
profitable for me. However, as an Internet citizen, I would not like to see
that become part of the price of admission for email.
It wouldn't be. Mail servers aren't generally CPU-bound and wouldn't
become so with DK. This really isn't a problem.
By using a DSP core in an ASIC with the right communications interface, such
an accelerator could be a $10 adder to a motherboard, if that, but I don't
see things going that way. If they do, I'd change my tune quickly. I
suppose something could be built as an external USB 2.0 device for
relatively low cost. Go ahead. Popularize this protocol and put me in the
hardware accelerator business.
I wouldn't give up the day job.
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dwmw2